So you know how people who are bored make up silly polls to put on Facebook? And they you’re supposed to copy the questions and answer them for yourself and post them? And then your friends are supposed to copy them and erase your answers and put their own answers on and then re-post them?
Here is the Naturalist Poll that I created while bored. You know what to do:
- Have you ever eaten a cuckoo flower (or any other wildflower)?
- Have you ever held a spittle bug on the end of your finger and watched it do the spittle bug dance?
- When was the first time you saw a Bald Eagle?
- Would you rather be pee’d on by a toad or musked by a garter snake?
- Have you ever found an owl pellet in the woods?
- Have you ever watched a dragonfly nymph eat a minnow?
- Have you ever gone out on the first warm rainy night of spring to watch the salamanders do “it”?
- When was the first time you went tent camping?
- When was the most memorable time you slept under the stars?
- Have you ever stayed up all night to watch a lunar eclipse?
- Would you rather go hiking in summer or winter?
- When was the last time you lost your shoe in the mud?
I’m gonna put it on Facebook, too…
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1. Have you ever eaten a cuckoo flower (or any other wildflower)? I’ve consumed lots of wild flowers, but don’t know what a cuckoo flower is. Favorites for snacking: clover (both sweet and sour varieties), violets, red sumac seeds — I don’t know if they count as flowers.
2. Have you ever held a spittle bug on the end of your finger and watched it do the spittle bug dance? No.
3. When was the first time you saw a Bald Eagle? Hmmm.. Juneau, Alaska, early 80s.
4. Would you rather be pee’d on by a toad or musked by a garter snake? Toad pee. Snake musk is hard to scrub off.
5. Have you ever found an owl pellet in the woods? No
6. Have you ever watched a dragonfly nymph eat a minnow? No
7. Have you ever gone out on the first warm rainy night of spring to watch the salamanders do “it”? Yes!
8. When was the first time you went tent camping? 5 or 6 yrs old, in the back yard. I awoke in my usual bed, with no recollection of being transported.
9. When was the most memorable time you slept under the stars? In Yellowstone, atop a camper, swatting bugs and listening to coyotes howl. Also early 80s.
10. Have you ever stayed up all night to watch a lunar eclipse? Yes
11. Would you rather go hiking in summer or winter? Spring or fall, actually, before/after bugs.
12. When was the last time you lost your shoe in the mud? A year or so back when I stepped into quicksand in ASP.
Les
Good list of questions!
I remember my first sighting of bald eagle in British Columbia on a whale-watching trip.
I once stayed up most of the night to identify constellations–never a lunar eclipse.
I have been peed on by a toad but never musked by a garter snake–didn’t know they did that.
I have seen salamanders mate most recently at a workshop I attended.
I’ll play:
Have you ever eaten a cuckoo flower (or any other wildflower)?
– I don’t know what a cuckoo flower is, but I’ve eaten several others
Have you ever held a spittle bug on the end of your finger and watched it do the spittle bug dance?
– nope
When was the first time you saw a Bald Eagle?
– in the wild? Just a few years ago, as their range is normally north of home.
Would you rather be pee’d on by a toad or musked by a garter snake?
– what, no “both” option?
Have you ever found an owl pellet in the woods?
– many times
Have you ever watched a dragonfly nymph eat a minnow?
– nope
Have you ever gone out on the first warm rainy night of spring to watch the salamanders do “it”?
– nope (not a lot of ‘manders here)
When was the first time you went tent camping?
– when I was too young to remember it now
When was the most memorable time you slept under the stars?
– all of them!
Have you ever stayed up all night to watch a lunar eclipse?
– nope
Would you rather go hiking in summer or winter?
– yes
When was the last time you lost your shoe in the mud?
– as a child. I tend not to go mud-wading much these days 🙂
You crack me up!! I’m loving this. Well thought out ‘poll’!
Have you ever eaten a cuckoo flower (or any other wildflower)?
~quite often
Have you ever held a spittle bug on the end of your finger and watched it do the spittle bug dance?
~every summer
When was the first time you saw a Bald Eagle?
~this morning
Would you rather be pee’d on by a toad or musked by a garter snake?
~toad
Have you ever found an owl pellet in the woods?
~no, but on a granite headland at the ocean
Have you ever watched a dragonfly nymph eat a minnow?
~never had this opportunity. By the time I’m observing, they’ve apparently already dined.
Have you ever gone out on the first warm rainy night of spring to watch the salamanders do “it”?
~every spring
When was the first time you went tent camping?
~8 years old, with the Girl Scouts
When was the most memorable time you slept under the stars?
~on a barren beach along the Cape Breton coast
Have you ever stayed up all night to watch a lunar eclipse?
~once or twice
Would you rather go hiking in summer or winter?
~I’m a summertime girl, but I’ve been dragged out during the winter a few times, and absolutely loved it
When was the last time you lost your shoe in the mud?
~just last summer in the flats photographing migrating shorebirds
~karen
Have you ever eaten a cuckoo flower (or any other wildflower)?
yes
Have you ever held a spittle bug on the end of your finger and watched it do the spittle bug dance?
yes
When was the first time you saw a Bald Eagle?
In ohio as an adult
Would you rather be pee’d on by a toad or musked by a garter snake?
toad
Have you ever found an owl pellet in the woods?
yep
Have you ever watched a dragonfly nymph eat a minnow?
not yet
Have you ever gone out on the first warm rainy night of spring to watch the salamanders do “it”?
ummm no
When was the first time you went tent camping?
when I was a child Mt. Shasta
When was the most memorable time you slept under the stars?
when I was 14 lake tahoe, lots of times since, but that time really
stands out
Have you ever stayed up all night to watch a lunar eclipse?
oh yes
Would you rather go hiking in summer or winter?
summer by a hair
When was the last time you lost your shoe in the mud?
last week 🙂